McClenaghan's 3/34 helps MI restrict RCB to 162/5 in IPL

Mitchell McClenaghan claimed three wickets as Mumbai Indians produced a disciplined bowling performance to restrict Royal Challengers Bangalore to a modest 162 for 5 in their IPL encounter here today.
Besides McClenaghan (3/34), Krunal Pandya (2/34) took two wickets, while Karn Sharma (1/23) and Jasprit Bumrah (1/33) accounted for wicket apiece after RCB skipper Virat Kohli won the toss and elected to bat.
For RCB, AB de Villiers (43) emerged as the top-scorer after he blasted three fours and as many sixes during his 27- ball innings, while Pawan Negi (35) and Kedar Jadhav (28) provided the late charge to take the team past 150-mark.

Electing to bat, RCB lost their first wicket in the fourth over when Mandeep Singh (17) went for the slog sweep and was caught by Hardik Pandya.
In the sixth over, McClenaghan removed Virat Kohli (20) when the RCB skipper flicked a slower ball straight to short midwicket and Rohit Sharma took a simple catch as the visitors slipped to 40/2.
New man AB de Villiers then blasted McClenaghan over backward point for a four before sending him over sweeper cover for a maximum as RCB scored 52-2 in the powerplay overs.

The South African gave Krunal Pandya the same treatment as RCB accumulated 13 runs off the ninth over.

After 10 overs, they were 80 for 2 but Travis Head (12) holed out to Hardik at deep midwicket and RCB slumped to 85-3.
De Villiers brought up the 100 with a six off Krunal over the square leg boundary but was dismissed in the next delivery by the bowler for the fourth time in as many meetings.
Shane Watson's poor run continued and he went down cheaply again to leave RCB struggling at 108-5 in 13.4 overs.
Negi and Jadhav then steadied the innings, taking ones and twos, to keep the scoreboard ticking.
Negi finally exploded in the 18th over, producing a couple of sixes off Lasith Malinga over extra cover and long- off, before smashing maximum over long-on boundary in the next over to bring up 150.

The final over yielded just five runs as McClenaghan dismissed Negi and Jadhav in successive deliveries, while S Aravind ran himself out while looking for a single.